FLPSED(1)

💖 flpsed — annotate PostScript and PDF files 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the flpsed page from the General Commands Manual ✨ this is literally the tool that lets you scribble all over PostScript and PDF files, and she's lowkey iconic for it.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

flpsed [-bdh] [-t tag=value] [-z zoom] [infile] [outfile]

that's the whole vibe. one command, so many possibilities 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the tea is: the flpsed utility lets you annotate Postscript files. and if you're a PDF girlie? no worries. PDF files can be imported using the pdftops and exported using the ps2pdf utility. 🦋

here's the part that actually slays: if the document was saved in Postscript format, added text can be reedited later. so it's not a one-and-done situation, you can come back and change your mind. periodt.

flpsed is useful for filling in forms or adding short comments. and if you're the type who doesn't wanna sit there clicking things, batch mode can be used to automate form filling. 🔥

The options are as follows:

• -b — Batch mode (no GUI). In batch mode flpsed reads from stdin, if no infile is specified. Batch mode is useful in combination with the file ... -t option. 🤖
• -d — Dump tags and values from a document to stdout (implies -b). it's giving "tell me everything" energy.
• -h — Show short help text. a little snack of information 💅
• -t tag=value — Set text to value where tag is tag. Multiple -t options are allowed. stack 'em up, bestie.
• -z zoom — Set initial zoom value in percent. zoom in, zoom out, main character energy 🔍
• -geometry WxH+X+Y — Set initial geometry. you're literally deciding where she lives on your screen.
• -iconic — Start iconified. she's shy, she starts small 🎀
• -scheme string — Use fltk scheme string. Currently fltk supports "plastic" and "gtk+". pick your aesthetic ✨

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

The flpsed utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. so 0 is the slay, anything above is the 😭.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

The command:

flpsed file1

will start flpsed and load file1 for interactive editing. just you, your file, and a dream 💜

The command:

flpsed -b -t foo=bar file1 file2

will set the text of all text fields in file1 carrying the tag "foo" to "bar" and write the resulting Postscript document to file2. no cap, that's the whole flex. 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pdftops(1), ps2pdf(1) — the besties she rolls with.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Johannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>

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and that's the page, bestie. go annotate something cute. iykyk 💖

Debian · July 18 2007 · FLPSED(1) — mwah, that's the version and the date, love u, bye 🎀💅🫶